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Grow Papaya From Seeds

on October 23, 2020

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Use Money-Making Apps To Earn Gift Cards For Your Gardening Projects

on October 22, 2020

Earning Gift Cards Frugal Gardening

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Earn Gift Cards Online For Your Gardening Expenses

on October 22, 2020

Earning Gift Cards Frugal Gardening

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The Land - An Update On Our Lake

on October 19, 2020

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How To Make A Mini Greenhouse

on October 12, 2020

Frugal Gardening Garden Tips Growing From Seeds Growing Fruit Trees Growing Palm Trees Growing Tomatoes

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Buying Used Rain Barrels - $20 A Piece - Where To Find A Rain Barrel & More

on September 22, 2020

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Growing Plants From Cuttings With Rooting Powder

on August 17, 2020

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Lowes Plant Clearance - $1 Lantana & More

on August 15, 2020

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How To Make Elderberry Juice

on August 10, 2020

Corona Virus Growing Elderberry Wild Harvesting

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How To Compost Wood Chips

on August 04, 2020

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Finding Free Plants on Craigslist

on August 02, 2020

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Sustainability: Back-To-School Secondhand Shopping & More

on July 31, 2020

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How To Compost Palmetto Palms

With a little less than half an acre of native Florida woodland and brush to remove and then fill with soil, composting everything we remove just makes sense. In the previous post, we showed you how to remove palmettos, but we are even more eager to show you how to compost palmettos.

How To Remove Palmetto Palms

If you have ever tried to remove a palmetto palm by cutting it down, you will likely have realized that removing palmettos is tricky. So, when we got ourselves a piece of land with about half an acre of these wonderful palmetto palms, also known as saw palmettos or shrub palmettos, we knew that we had a challenge on our hand.

How To Get Free Wood Chips

Using free wood chips to make compost is one of the many ways that we are trying to save money, when getting The Land ready for our move. This morning we were excited to see that our community compost area had been filled up with wood chips - free wood chips from two local pine trees that one of our neighbors had removed by a local tree company a few days ago.

Finding Free Plants: Aloe Vera

Here at Dancing Treetops we are all about saving plants, and this often means that we rescue plants discarded by others. This past weekend, when walking to the land for our weekend work, we discovered that some of our new neighbors had thrown out about a dozen aloe vera plants at the opposite side of the road.

We love finding free plants, and we have a soft spot for these aloe vera plants, since we've been envious of them for years. The mature aloe vera plants were surrounding a tree in an empty lot, where the house burned down about a decade ago. The lot has been empty ever since, although the lawn was fenced in and it was maintained nicely. The lot was recently sold, and our new neighbors removed almost all plants and trees on the half acre lot. They have been bringing in palms and flowers instead, so its not a complete loss, although there is nothing native left on the property.

Aloe vera plants are quite spiky, so in order to rescue them our oldest son had to return home for a…

Growing Plants From Cuttings With Rooting Powder

One way to expand your garden is by growing new plants from cuttings. A couple of years ago I decided to give rooting powder a try, and I ended up settling on the Miracle Gro FastRoot rooting powder. Years later it has resulted in many new plants growing in my garden from hibiscus to roses to rosemary and basil. Yesterday morning the kids and I went on a four-mile walk and we ended up picking up several new cuttings to start. WE picked up some coleus, pentas and more.

Sometimes we're successful and sometimes we're not. A couple of weeks ago we went on a five mile walk from the beach to downtown, and while we were walking we picked up a few of my daughter's favorite tropical plant the croton. She loves how the leaves of the croton crumble and twist, and in the past we have been successful to get a few croton plants to grow from cuttings. When we are on our walk, we usually wrap our cuttings in a piece of wet paper towel,transferring these to a glass of water, as soon as we r…

Lowes Plant Clearance - $1 Lantana & More

We do not like spending money on plants, but we love growing plants. However, we do have a guilty pleasure, which is perusing the plant clearance shelves at Lowes. Today, we were at Lowes to pick up a spigot for a new-to-us rain barrel, and of course we had to take a peak at the Lowes plant clearance area.
It was so tempting to pick up a lot of plants, but we thought about the budget and the space around our current home, and decided to only pick up two plants. Our plum tree has been struggling, and we need to surround it with pollinator plants for better pollination, and for this purpose we were thinking about putting in a lantana bush, as lantana blooms almost all year here in North East Florida, even in fall and winter, when our plum tree is in bloom. We had found a pink lantana growing wild, and yes lantana does grow wild here in Florida, but it was struggling after the move from an empty wooden area in our neighborhood, and we decided to leave it at the land for now. So, when we s…

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